Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
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Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
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Luke 14:25
Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,
Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
Luke 14:27
Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
Luke 14:29
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
Luke 14:30
saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
Luke 14:33
So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
Deuteronomy 20:8
The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
Judges 7:3
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
Luke 12:25
Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
Acts 7:3
and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’
Acts 15:38
But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
1 Thessalonians 3:4
For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
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Proverbs 24:27
Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
Genesis 11:4
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:5
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Genesis 11:6
Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Genesis 11:8
So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Matthew 21:33
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
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Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
Joshua 24:16
The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;
Joshua 24:17
for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.
Joshua 24:18
Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”
Joshua 24:19
Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
Joshua 24:20
If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”
Joshua 24:21
The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.”
Joshua 24:22
Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”
Joshua 24:23
“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”
Joshua 24:24
The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”
Ruth 1:15
She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
James 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
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Proverbs 6:8
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Luke 12:33
Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
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Mark 10:29
Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
Luke 18:29
He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,
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Mark 10:30
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
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Luke 14:8
“When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,
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Romans 8:18
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
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Revelation 13:18
Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
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